Retro: Oklahoma, Thursday May 22nd, 1980

[crainbebo]

Source: TV Guide, four days after the huge Mt. St Helens eruption.

CHANNELS
2 KTEW Tulsa [NBC]
3 KFDX Wichita Falls, TX [NBC]
4 KTVY Oklahoma City [NBC]
5 KOCO Oklahoma City [ABC]
6T KOTV Tulsa [CBS]
6W KAUZ Wichita Falls, TX [CBS]
7 KSWO Lawton [ABC]
8S KVIJ Sayre, OK [ABC]
8T KTUL Tulsa [ABC]
9 KWTV Oklahoma City [CBS]
10 KTEN Ada [ABC]
11 KTVT Dallas [IND]
12 KXII Sherman TX [CBS/NBC]
17 WTBS Atlanta, GA [IND]
25 KOKH Oklahoma City [IND]
34 KGMC Oklahoma City [IND]
39 KXTX Dallas [IND]
OETA Oklahoma Educational Television Authority [PBS]

4:55
17 World at Large

5AM
10 PTL Club

5:30
8T PTL Club
9 Summer Semester
Paradoxes of Modernization: Problems facing new nations.
17 News
39 Ross Bagley

5:50
5 Bulletin Board

5:55
5 Down to Earth

6AM
4 Petticoat Junction
Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) is expecting and Steve wants the baby born in a fancy-and distant-hospital. Steve: Mike Minor.
5 PTL Club
6W PTL Club
Richard Dortch is the guest host. Music by Lee Robbins.
9 Thursday Morning
17 Three Stooges/Little Rascals BW
39 Romper Room

6:20
2 New Zoo Revue
How to be a good listener.
6T Early Morning Show
7 Health Field

6:30
3 RFD 3
4 Farm News & Weather
6 Thursday Morning
8S News and Farm Report
8T Good Morning Oklahoma
25 New Zoo Revue
39 Tom and Jerry

6:40
11 News

6:45
12 Twelve Acres

6:50
2 News
7 Health Center

7AM
2 3 4 12 Today
Actress Shelley Duvall is scheduled to be interviewed.
5 7 8S 8T 10 Good Morning America
6W Thursday Morning
9 Morning Farm Report
11 Slam Bang Theatre
17 Lucy Show
25 Woody Woodpecker and Friends
39 Bugs Bunny & Friends

7:15
OETA AM Weather
9 Morning Cartoons

7:30
OETA Over Easy
An interview with Ellen Burstyn. Also: an update on tax laws that benefit senior citizens.
6T Tulsa Morning
9 Beverly Hillbillies
Country singer Roy Clark appears as star-struck Cousin Roy.
17 Romper Room
25 Popeye & Pals
34 PTL Club
39 Popeye

8AM
OETA Sesame Street
6T 6W 9 Captain Kangaroo
Guests: actress Millicent Martin, children's-show host Stu Kerr.
11 Comedy Capers
17 Family Affair
25 Krofft Superstars
39 Mighty Mouse

8:30
11 New Zoo Revue
11 Green Acres
25 Addams Family
39 Little Rascals BW

9AM
2 Phil Donahue
Guest: Ralph Nader.
OETA Electric Company
3 Card Sharks
4 Mike Douglas
Larry Wilcox (co-host), Roger Moore, Valerie Perrine, film producer Allan Carr and dancer Shabba-Doo. Music by the Joe Massimino band.
5 Phil Donahue
An audience of teachers discuss their profession.
6T 6W 9 12 Jeffersons
During a blackout, George and Marcus are arrested as looters. [and the cover of this TVG was the cast of the Jeffersons!]
7 Phil Donahue
The program topic is psychobiology, the study of the anatomical basis of behavior.
8S Mike Douglas
Steve Kanaly (co-host), Pat Harrington, Barbara Rush, composer David Shire, mentalist Kreskin and professional wrestler the Assassin.
8T Big Valley
10 Phil Donahue
11 Leave it to Beaver BW
Wally (Tony Dow) tries to learn the cha cha in time for a big dance.
17 Movie: "The First Traveling Saleslady." (1956) The comic and romantic adventures of two corset-selling ladies who go to Texas at the turn of the century.
25 Romper Room
39 700 Club
The series "Decade of Destiny" continues.

9:30
3 Hollywood Squares
Pat Wayne, Conrad Bain and Todd Bridges, George Gobel, Karen Grassle, Randi Oakes, Tom Poston.
6T 6W 9 12 Whew!
Robert Vaughn, Marcia Wallace.
11 My Three Sons
Jan Clayton plays Verna Benson, a woman bent on marrying Charley.
25 Richard Hogue
34 Prophecy in the News

9:55
6T Coffee Break
Potatoes with mushrooms and parmesan cheese is the recipe.
6W 9 12 CBS News

10AM
2 3 4 10 High Rollers
5 7 8S 8T Laverne & Shirley
The girls are unfairly eliminated for the fourth straight year in the Shotz Talent Show.
6T 6W 9 12 Price is Right
11 Maverick BW
Accompanying pretty Daisy Harris [Kathleen Crowley] through the Bad Lands, Bart finds the little lady needs less protection than he does-from her. Bart: Jack Kelly.
25 Dinah! And Friends
Co-host: Don Meredith. The guests include Neil Sedaka and his daughter Dara; Presidental consumer assistant Esther Peterson; cruise director Gary Hunter.
34 Vegetable Soup

10:30
2 3 4 Wheel of Fortune
5 7 8S 8T 10 Family Feud
34 700 Club

10:55
17 News

11AM
2 3 4 Chain Reaction
Wesley Eure, Anita Gillette.
5 All My Children
6T 6W 12 Young and the Restless
7 8S 8T 10 $20,000 Pyramid
Ken Kercheval, Laurie Winters.
9 Midday-Ayres/Swanson
11 Ironside
Ed and Off. Ray Leonard have been suspended-for killing a dope peddler. Ironside: Raymond Burr.
17 Love, American Style
25 Movie BW
"Made for Each Other" (1939) John Cromwell directed this unusual blend of tears and laughter about the problems of a young couple (Carole Lombard and James Stewart).
39 Marcus Welby, MD

11:30
2 8S Joker's Wild
3 Password Plus
Bert Convy, Phyllis Diller.
4 Dannysday
Getting the most out of one's vacation is the topic.
7 8T Ryan's Hope
10 Another World [NBC on ABC affiliate? Thought 12 was CBS/NBC...]
17 Movie: "Rancho Notorious." (1952) Fritz Lang directed this frontier tale of a saloon singer who runs a hideout for bandits. Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer.

11:50
9 Midday Farm Report

Noon
2 3 4 5 6T 8S 11 News
6W Midday
7 8T All My Children
9 Young and the Restless
12 Twelve Acres
34 Bugs & Friends
39 Big Valley

12:20
3 Focus

12:25
3 Patchwork

12:30
2 3 4 Days Of Our Lives
5 Ryan's Hope
6T 6W 12 Search for Tomorrow
8S Play The Percentages
11 Movie BW: "My Foolish Heart" (1949) Susan Hayward in a vivid performance as a woman haunted by the memory of a tragic wartime romance.
34 Movie: "Stolen Hours" (1963) Susan Hayward as a playgirl with a short time to live; remake of the Bette Davis vehicle "Dark Victory." Still maintains the facility to drain the tear ducts.

1PM
5 7 8S 8T 10 One Life to Live
6T 6W 9 12 As The World Turns
25 Merv Griffin
Guests: Chevy Chase, Andy Gibb, Graham Nash, Grace Slick and improvisational comedians Jim Staahl and Jim Fisher.
39 Green Acres BW
Local carpenters fume when Oliver hires an outside contractor.

1:25
17 News

1:30
2 3 4 Doctors
17 I Love Lucy BW
39 Andy Griffith
Emmett's loving wife and over-bearing brother-in-law conspire to turn Mayberry's fix-it man into an insurance salesman.

2PM
2 3 4 Another World
5 7 8S 8T 10 General Hospital
6T 6W 9 12 Guiding Light
17 Banana Splits
39 Superfriends

2:30
11 Popeye & Friends
17 Flintstones
25 Addams Family
34 Star Blazers
39 Popeye & Bugs Hour

3PM
OETA Sesame Street
5 7 8S 8T 10 Edge of Night
6T Dinah! and Friends
Co-host: Fernando Lamas. Guests: Gladys Knight and the Pips, Ray Charles and Johnny Mathis.
6W Movie: "Harry in Your Pocket." (1973) The escapades of a crack pickpocket team are complicated by interal discord. Filmed in Salt Lake City, Seattle and British Columbia. James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin.
9 Dating Game
12 One Day at a Time
Ann's new boy friend (Lyman Ward) asks her to weekend with him.
17 Spectreman
25 Groovie Goolies
34 Three Stooges BW

3:30
2 Woody Woodpecker
3 My Three Sons
Robbie (Don Grady) balks when he's asked to be best man at the wedding of a girl he planned to marry.
4 Tom & Jerry
5 Happy Days Again
7 Merv Griffin
Guests include author Nancy Friday, Elke Sommer, Joseph Bottoms and Wilfrid Hyde-White.
8S Bugs Bunny & Friends
8T Doctor Ding's Cartoon Lab [local?]
9 Gomer Pyle, USMC
Gomer won't stop trying to repay Carter for saving his life.
10 Ryan's Hope
11 Banana Splits
12 Gong Show
The panelists are Johnny Paycheck, Jo Anne Worley and Pat Paulsen.
17 Gilligan's Island
25 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
34 Speed Racer
39 Flintstones

4PM
2 39 Tom & Jerry
OETA Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
3 Popeye
4 Little Rascals and Friends
5 Carol Burnett & Friends
Guest William Conrad joins in a comedy sketch as a police sergeant investigating a mugging.
6T Bonanza
Ben's battle to keep a tycoon's lackey out of the governor's chair is almost ended by an assassin's bullet. Ben: Lorne Greene.
8T Gilligan's Island
9 Andy Griffith BW
The new mayor (Parley Baer) thinks Andy is too easygoing.
10 All My Children
11 Bugs & Porky
12 34 Flintstones
17 My Three Sons
25 Popeye & Pals

4:30
2 My Three Sons
Robbie saves Terri Wong's life-which, according to Chinese custom, makes her his slave.
OETA Electric Company
4 Superman
Superman probes the workings of a fanatical antisuperstition club.
5 Sanford & Son
8S Gomer Pyle, USMC
Gomer wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. Problem: whom should he take? Gomer: Jim Nabors.
8T Andy Griffith
9 I Love Lucy BW
Lucy takes her usual drastic steps to keep Ricky from watching the fights every night.
11 Gilligan's Island
Gilligan (Bob Denver) claims he's seen a ghost.
12 Tom & Jerry
17 I Dream of Jeannie
25 Bionic Woman
An extraterrestrial being (Eduard Franz) holds Jaime (Lindsay Wagner) and her date captive.
34 Bugs Bunny

5PM
2 M*A*S*H
MASH is the suspect of a documentary about doctors at the front.
OETA Zoom
3 Mary Tyler Moore
Lou can't decide whether to see an old flame (Beverly Garland) after a 30-year separation.
4 Hogan's Heroes
Conclusion. A fortuneteller helps Hogan free the underground agent held by the Gestapo.
5 7 8T 10 ABC News-Frank Reynolds
6T 9 News
6W All In The Family
Archie (Caroll O'Connor) unwittingly joins an ultra-patriotic group whose next target for harassment is Mike (Rob Reiner). First of two parts.
8S Happy Days Again
11 I Love Lucy BW
The gang spends a harrowing night at a rickety motel.
12 I Love Lucy
17 Carol Burnett & Friends
34 Brady Bunch
The Grand Canyon adventure concludes with Bobby and Cindy encountering a runaway Indian boy.
39 Brady Bunch
Marcia wants applause when she lands a part in the school production of "Romeo & Juliet."

5:30
2 5 8T 10 News
OETA Over Easy
A talk with editor Norman Cousins; a demonstration of simple exercises by Jack LaLanne.
3 4 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
6W 9 12 CBS News-Cronkite
7 Cross Wits
8S ABC News-Frank Reynolds
11 Dick Van Dyke BW
Rob tries to give away props-but nobody wants two live ducklings.
17 Bob Newhart
25 Starsky & Hutch
A murder investigation uncovers an illegal-alien smuggling operation.
34 I Dream of Jeannie
Part 3. With Jeannie still locked in the safe, her sister (also played by Barbara Eden) tries to steal Tony (Larry Hagman).
39 Hogan's Heroes
A British commando briefs Hogan's irregulars on the mission he was unable to complete.

-crainbebo

6pm-5am will be done tomorrow.

 

[azumanga]

11:30
10 Another World [NBC on ABC affiliate? Thought 12 was CBS/NBC...]

KTEN and KXII both shared NBC programming as secondary affiliates. KTEN carried both ABC and NBC programming from its 1954 sign on until 1998, when it became exclusively NBC. Ironically today, ABC is seen on one of KTEN's subchannels.

 

[bpatrick]

Any Oklahoma TV Guides from that period you'd care to sell?
I'm interested.

 

[crainbebo]

bpatrick: This is the only one I own. I got it in an eBay auction, and I am not selling it. Sorry.

Continuing with the listing

6PM
2 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
OETA MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
3 4 6W 7 8S 9 12 News
5 Joker's Wild
6T CBS News-Walter Cronkite
10 Family Feud
11 Bewitched
Witchery at an ice-skating rink. Former Olympic skating champion Bob Paul appears as the instructor.
17 Sanford and Son
34 Odd Couple
Conflict over a greyhound: Oscar wants to race it, Felix wants to make it a pamepered, non-racing pet.
39 Star Trek

6:30
2 5 7 8S Tic Tac Dough
OETA Oklahoma Report
3 Happy Days Again
4 Match Game PM
Fannie Flagg, Robert Pine, Bill Daily, Stephanie Edwards, Brett Somers.
6T Match Game
Bonnie Franklin, Peter Marshall, Dick Martin, Brett Somers, Marcia Wallace.
6W P.M. Magazine
Featured: air-traffic controllers at Sheppard Air Force base.
8T Beverly Hillbillies
Perpetual student Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye) returns home.
9 Face the Music [an ad is featured for it in this Guide. Host Ron Ely]
10 M*A*S*H
An officer (James Callahan) hopes to write an expose on the war.
11 Adam-12
A high-speed cops-and-robbers pursuit highlights this episode.
12 Happy Days Again
Fonzie (Henry Winkler) is a juror in a purse-snatching case. Defendant: Ralph Wilcox.
17 25 All in The Family
34 Bob Newhart
The members of Bob's therapy group rebel when he raises their fees.

7PM
2 3 4 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Anxious to revenge the killing of a cohort, a notorious band of assassins plans a reprisal against the Earth's Defense Directorate.
Buck: Gil Gerard. Huer: Tim O'Connor. Twiki: Felix Silla.
OETA Bill Moyers' Journal
A report on the efforts of Franklin County, MA citizens to meet their future energy needs through conservation methods, the use of renewable resources.
5 7 8S 8T 10 Mork & Mindy
Through the magic of an Orkan Plasmic Essence Reversifier, Mork (Robin Williams) learns what life would have been like for Mindy (Pam Dawber) and her family if he had never landed on Earth. Fred: Conrad Janis. Cora: Elizabeth Kerr.
6T 6W 9 12 Waltons
A series retrospective. As the family prepares a surprise birthday party for Grandma, scenes from past episodes recall John-Boy protesting a book burning and announcing his intent to leave home for New York; the destruction of the family home in a fire; Mary Ellen's wedding and the birth of her baby; and a family memorial for Grandma. In lighter moments, Olivia stages a sitdown strike to protest her workload, and she and John toast 25 years of marriage with a bottle of champagne. Olivia: Michael Learned. John: Ralph Waite. Grandma: Ellen Corby.
11 Gunsmoke
An old man [Nehemiah Persoff] faces the wrath of three killers bent on settling a score with his crippled gun-fighter son. Matt: James Arness.
17 Movie: "The Great Race" (1965) Blake Edwards directed this slapstick farce, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as rivals in a 1908 road race from New York to Paris. Natalie Wood.
25 Jim Rockford, Private Investigator [aka Rockford Files]
A nonchalant client asks Rockford [James Garner] to locate his vanished wife.
34 Star Trek
On a probe beyond the earth's galaxy, the Enterprise encounters an unknown force that transforms two crewmen into superior beings-determined to take over the star ship.
39 Jim Rockford, Private Investigator
Rockford's client is an unlikable heir who is the leading suspect in the death of his parents.

7:30
5 7 8S 8T 10 Benson
Budget cuts force Benson to fire five members of his staff. Benson: Robert Guillaume.

8PM
OETA Righteous Apples
Big Neck [Mykel T. Williamson], arrested by a bigoted cop on mugging charges, withholds his alibi to protect the troubled girl he had been counseling that evening.
5 7 8S 8T 10 Barney Miller
A monk reports the disappearance of a novice. Meanwhile, Dietrich [Steve Landesburg] readies himself for mugging duty-in drag.
Barney: Hal Linden. Wojo: Maxwell Gail. Harris: Ron Glass.
11 Mary Tyler Moore
Rhoda opens a plant store with money she borrowed from Mary.
25 Movie: "The Last Sunset" (1961) A stellar cast making a cattle drive from Mexico to Texas. Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas.
34 Movie: "Kid Galahad" (1962) Elvis Presley as a lad who becomes a boxing champ. Remake of an old Warners movie tailored for Elvis, and done pretty well. Gig Young, Lola Albright.
39 700 Club

8:30
2 3 4 Movie
"13 Great Disasters That Shook the World" (1979) recounts the 1956 Andrea Doria sinking; the 1937 crash of the Hindenburg, 1964's Hurricane Camille; the 1974 tornado that demolished Xenia, OH; the 1964 earthquake that shook Anchorage, Alaska; and other catastrophes over the last 50 years.
OETA Camera Three
"Gisela May Sings Brecht" features the one-time member of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble in a 1972 concert. May recalls the playwright and performs excerpts from "The Threepenny Opera."
5 7 8S 8T 10 Ropers
A small apartment fire forces the Ropers to spend the night with the Brookes family. Stanley: Norman Fell. Helen: Audra Lindley. [Last show of the series.]
11 Bob Newhart
A study in self-pity; Jerry is suffering from a broken romance.

9PM
OETA Ascent of Man
The genius of Issac Newton and Albert Einstein is examined in Part 7 of this series. Segments on Newton's work include a re-creation of his experiments with light refraction and a consideration of his theory of universal gravitation. To discuss Einstein's contributions, host Jacob Bronowski travels to Berne, Switzerland, where the physicist produced his classic papers on relativity.
5 7 8S 8T 10 20/20
6T 6W 9 12 Shirley Maclaine
Special: Shirley proves that "Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own" with the help of Dean Martin and champion gymnast Kurt Thomas. Shirley joins Dean in a vignette about old vaudeville troupers; leads into a production number [to "Sweet Georgia Brown"] that celebrates American dance styles; finds common elegance in ballet and baseball [with the aid of dancing moppets]; and, in a monologue, plays a woman going through the many emotional shifts between girlhood and old age.
11 Movie: "A Howling in the Woods." [1971] TV-movie mixing classic suspense elements with martial woes in a troubled town. Filmed at Lake Tahoe. Liza: Barbara Eden. [Interrupted at 10pm for news.]

10PM
2 3 4 5 6T 6W 7 8S 8T 9 10 11 12 News
OETA Dick Cavett
Guest: actress Diana Rigg.
17 Last of the Wild
25 Movie: "Ten Tall Men." [1951] Burt Lancaster and his legionnaires vs. Riff rebels. Good escapism. Jody Lawrence.
34 Benny Hill
In a mime skit, Benny plays Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
39 Jack Van Impe

10:30
2 3 4 12 Tonight Show
Scheduled: singer Hoyt Axton, journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave.
OETA Celebrity Revue
Guest host Monty Hall with comic Steve Bluestein, singers Johnny Tillotston and Cathy Carlson, and writer Tom Thompson.
5 M*A*S*H
An overzealous intelligence officer [Edward Winter] wants a wounded prisoner patched up for execution.
6T 6W Jeffersons
Lionel is neglecting his studies and his family in favor of a whirl of expensive socializing. Lionel: Mike Evans.
7 8T 10 Nightline-Ted Koppel
9 Gunsmoke
A group of grateful nuns bring their wounded protector to Dodge-without revealing his criminal past.
17 Movie: "Dial M For Murder" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock directed this version of the Frederick Knott Broadway hit about a tennis pro who plots to kill his wife. Ray Milland.
34 Prisoner: Cell Block H
Tension mounts when privileges are cancelled; Karen befriends a new prisoner who was arrested for soliciting.
39 The Rock

10:45
8S The Virginian
The Virginian becomes involved in a veteran lawman's obsessive search for two surviving members of an outlaw gang. James: John Anderson.

10:50
7 10 Charlie's Angels
Jewel thieves take Sabrina and Bosley hostage to force Kris and Kelly to find the thieves' double-crossing partner. Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith.
8T Gunsmoke
Exercise in feminine wiles: Newly's hooked by a charming young widow who's playing him against a vicious gunman.

11PM
5 Nightline
6T 6W Movie: "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough" (1975) surveys life and love among the jet set, focusing on the close relationship of a Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas) and his daughter (Deborah Raffin).
11 Movie: "Short Walk to Daylight" (1972) TV-movie about eight earthquake survivors trapped in the New York subway system. James Brolin, Don Mitchell.
34 Untouchables BW
Ness (Robert Stack), disguised as a bookie, follows a hot tip on a narcotics-smuggling case. Joker: Henry Silva.
39 Faith Temple

11:20
5 Charlie's Angels
See 10:50pm on Channels 7 and 10.

11:30
9 Movie BW: "My Darling Clementine" (1946) John Ford's saga of how Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) clean up Tombstone. Clementine: Cathy Downs.
39 Life of Riley BW

11:50
8T Charlie's Angels
See 10:50pm on Channels 7 and 10.

Midnight
2 3 4 Tomorrow-Tom Snyder
Scheduled: Presidential write-in candidate Allen Michael.
7 3's A Crowd
10 Baretta
Baretta's girl friend (Ann Prentiss) happens upon a sackful of mobster money. Baretta: Robert Blake.
25 News

12:10
25 Calendar 25

12:15
8S Nightline

12:30
5 Baretta
See Midnight on Ch. 10.

12:35
8S Charlie's Angels
See 10:50pm on Channels 7 and 10.
17 News

12:40
17 Movie BW: "Life at the Top" (1965) The British success story gets another rough appraisal in this fine sequel to "Room at the Top." Laurence Harvey.

1AM
2 11 News
4 Tonight in Oklahoma
8T Bareta
See 12AM, Ch. 10.

1:05
4 Movie: "Three Godfathers" (1948) Three bandits [John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr.] try to save a baby by crossing a burning desert.

1:25
6 News

1:30
2 Call The Doctor
9 Twilight Zone BW

1:45
8 Baretta
See 12AM, Ch. 10.

1:55
6 Early Morning Show-Carolyn Jenkins

3:10
17 Movie: "Mickey One" (1965) Unusual, symbolic tale of an entertainer whose life is confused by gangsters and career problems. Warren Beatty.

3:30
4 Movie: "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu" (1967) Christopher Lee portrays the notorious criminal, who's out to create an international crime syndicate.

-crainbebo

 

[searadiofreak]

I lived in OKC in 1985, and was impressed with the tv market. (radio was quite good back then as well). Garth Brooks was discovered by local OKC tv, if I recall. There was a lot of talent that came through the market and moved to the bigs, among them Mary Hart.

 

[Marckd]

Both Channel 25 and Channel 34 signed on within 7 weeks of each other. KOKH 25 converted from a part-time secondary educational PBS station to a full-time commercial station October 1, 1979. Channel 34 then signed on November 28, 1979 with a similar format. Both stations were heavy with cartoons, drama shows, and a few classic sitcoms and older movies. Many desirable classic sitcoms and all the recent sitcoms were still airing on the network affiliates at the time. Channel 34 seemed to have plenty of shows from paramount. Eventually some of the other older shows would fall off network channels and move to these 2 stations and KAUT eventually. KAUT would by the way sign on in the fall of 1980 and they had religion from 6-9 AM, news from 9-5 PM, and Subscription TV after 5. By 1981 the news would go till 7 PM. Weekends would have news 9 to noon and religion 6-9 and STV after that. Still the station failed and gradually the local news would be replaced with Business news from Financial News Network. In 1982, the Subscription TV format ended and replacing that would be old movies and westerns. The religion would move to mid mornings weekdays and cartoons would move into mornings. By 1984 KAUT was a conventional independent station as well as the other two. So by 1984 the market had 3 independent stations which was unusual for a city this size.

Tulsa also got its first independent in 1980, 23 KOKI which was not all that strong, relying on old movies, drama shows, westerns, cartoons, and a couple old sitcoms. Channel 41 signed on with various mixes of religious, subscription TV, low budget shows, Business News formats, etc in 1981 and became a conventional independent in 1984, even weaker than KOKI. A religious station signs on Channel 47 in 1985 as well. By 1988 the religious station begins running cartoons and some older sitcoms in the 2-7 PM slot, Channel 23 takes Fox, is sold to Clear Channel and becomes a stronger station. Channel 41 goes dark in late in the 80's. Channel 41 signs back on in the early 90's with religion and paid programming, but evolves to a barter syndicated entertainment format by the end of 1991 with cartoons, some sitcoms, lots of talk shows, and some low budget movies. In 1994, KOKI takes over Channel 41 and that station becomes the UPN affiliate. But Tulsa had some weak stations back in the 80's.